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"And with viral epidemics we are beginning to know what the risks are.
I recently began a Daily Comment about the growing threat of viral epidemics with one of modern medicine's more famous quotes.
That knowledge led to huge victories in battles against viral epidemics -- notably a 1974 meningitis outbreak in Brazil that killed 4,000 people in its first few weeks.
The rapidity with which the rage virus is transmitted does, however, permit a story line that has both a superficially reassuring ending and a disturbing significance with respect to actual viral epidemics caused by AIDS and SARS.
Viral epidemics like this one are not just the result of human encroachment on the jungles of Uganda, or of teams of travelling canoeists from the South Pacific, or even, simply, of globalization.
The speed of the SARS virus's transformation suggests that to prevent new viral epidemics, like the one that experts fear could emerge from the current cases of bird flu, which has spread through Asia, it would help to identify and isolate patients at the earliest possible stages before a virus can attain its peak infectivity.
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After sporadic cases through the 1970s, the viral epidemic was first reported in New York City and California.
As for a viral epidemic you have to isolate those who've got it and stop them passing it on.
Wading into a mysterious viral epidemic, Mrs. Peabody — figuratively, at least — rolled up her sleeves.
"There's speculation that a previous viral epidemic was highly lethal and those who survived had this natural variation that caused the defect in the CCR5.
From now on, I don't think there is going to be any new viral epidemic that we will not be able to identify within a few days.
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